Beschreibung:
This book examines the introduction of Soviet socialist culture in the People's Republic of China, focusing on the period of Sino-Soviet friendship in the 1950s. Drawing on archival findings, newspapers, magazines and interviews, the book delves into changes in Chinese popular imagination and everyday aesthetics contingent upon Soviet influence.
Part I: The Avowed Internationalism; Chapter 1: The Propaganda of Friendship; Chapter 2: One World, One Language?; Part II: The New Outlook; Chapter 3: Urban Landscapes and Socialist Architecture; Chapter 4: New Clothes and Socialist Fashion; Part III: The Public and the Private; Chapter 5: Soviet Literature in 1950s China; Chapter 6: Soviet Literature in China's Cultural Revolution;